When Zhao Kai heard that his father wanted to lead an army to quell the uprising in the southeast in the name of the southern tour, he immediately said happily: "My son is willing to go with my father to make great achievements and wipe out the remnants of the rebellion for our Song Dynasty!"
"Very good!" Zhao Ji said happily.
Zhao Ji knew that in addition to the twenty-year-old crown prince Zhao Huan, the third prince was the nineteen-year-old Zhao Kai, who was considered an adult prince.
The second prince, Zhao Tong, died the day after he was born. The fourth prince, Zhao Ji, also died when he was one year old.
The fifth prince Zhao Shu is only seventeen years old this year, he can barely be considered an adult!
Zhao Jidao: "Before the Southern Expedition, I want to inspect the five warehouses in the capital. Kai'er, please come with me immediately."
"My son obeys the decree." Zhao Kai didn't know what kind of madness his father was. Why has his father been so diligent in the past two days?
Zhao Ji had his own plans. What the heck, he was not diligent in his work. He also lived like the original owner of his body, eating, drinking, playing, playing chess, calligraphy and painting, living extravagantly. After the Jingkang Incident six years later, in addition to sitting with me on the Dragon Boat Festival now,
Except for the Ninth Prince Zhao Gou who is on the chariot, you princes and princesses have all become prisoners of the gold thief.
Zhao Ji, escorted by 500 followers from the Imperial City Division, came to the military warehouse, one of the five warehouses in the capital.
The five warehouses are the five warehouses for storing materials, including the garage, the armory, the sacrificial vessel warehouse, the music warehouse and the banquet vessel warehouse.
The main thing Zhao Ji wants to inspect is the arsenal. The arsenal is a warehouse where weapons are stored.
Zhao Ji's inspection this time made Zhao Ji furious. He saw that there were many types of weapons stored in the arsenal, including rockets, bed crossbows, wooden feather crossbows, iron pans, fire caltrops, sabers, and wolf-tooth arrows.
, splitting formation axe, etc., but in Ruoda's arsenal, about 95% of the slots are vacant.
In other words, although the types of weapons in this arsenal are quite complete and the quality has not been tested, the quantity is seriously insufficient.
Zhao Ji was furious, summoned the warden in charge of the arsenal, and asked: "There is a lack of weapons in the arsenal, what crime do you deserve?"
The armory guard, who was in his fifties, was so frightened that he knelt down and kowtowed, crying: "In this armory, I really don't blame my subordinates!
In the past few years, there have been no "ten-day classes"; therefore, the South and North Workshops, Bow and Crossbow Academy, Ordnance Supervisor, East and West Workshops, Leather Corner Factory, Materials Workshop, and Imperial Arms Office do not follow the previous practices.
A batch of weapons is sent to this arsenal every ten days!
However, the weapons ordered by Lieutenant Gao to replenish the military camps still have to be continuously transported out of the arsenal. Therefore, the number of weapons in the arsenal is getting smaller and smaller."
Zhao Ji frowned, the political corruption in the late Northern Song Dynasty should have spread to the manufacturing and storage of weapons!
Zhao Ji understands what the armory keeper said about the ten-day lesson.
The ten-day course is "after each weapons manufacturing department completes the weapons, it must be submitted to the emperor for review every ten days, and then sent to the arsenal in the five warehouses for storage."
At the beginning of the founding of the Song Dynasty, in order to improve the quality of the weapons produced, a relatively strict assessment system was established.
During the reign of Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty, it was stipulated that the weapons made in the workshops should be inspected every ten days and given "ten lessons". Every year, the weapons made by each workshop would be imported into the five treasuries for collection. He also often "sent officials to use sharp weapons to go to the various roads and courtyards"
The decree is that the second rank is the third rank, and the officials involved are dismissed based on the quality of their weapons."
During the reign of Emperor Shenzong, the "Xining French Style" that established the standard for weapons manufacturing was still used in the Zhezong Dynasty and the early Huizong Dynasty...
Zhao Ji thought for a moment, and it seemed that the original owner of his body, Song Huizong, had been too free and easy in the past few years. Not to mention the [Ten Days], he also did not abide by many other systems passed down by his ancestors.
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However, Zhao Ji still asked angrily: "The arsenal is short of weapons, why didn't you report it?"
The armory guard immediately reported back: "I wrote several times to state that the number of weapons in the armory was insufficient, but every time I wrote, it was like a stone, and there was no news..."
Zhao Ji didn't have time to listen to the complaints of a sixth-grade armory guard.
He ordered Zhao Kai: "Kai'er, I will leave this matter to you for detailed investigation. If what Kushou said is true, he will not be punished. If there is even a single word to deceive the emperor, I will never spare Kushou."